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Thursday, March 06, 2008

TIR Legs 4, 5 and 6

Sort of like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, leg 4 was a tad bit long, leg 6 was a tad bit short and leg 5 was just right (or as projected).

It seems that individuals that manned the exchanges at both of the Shiner legs took it upon themselves to move the original planned locations of the tents; however, that accepted thought process is that independently that these tents were moved by separate people about the same distance from the planned location - meaning the distance on leg 5 was probably accurate.

Sarah was the first one to point out that her Garmin picked up the distance of her first leg of the day to be a tad bit short.

1 Comments:

Blogger Sarah said...

Yep, my Garmin read 4.15 miles instead of the expected 4.31. Garmin's often off by a few hundredths, but not by more than a tenth unless it drops lock. There was nothing out there to cause it to drop lock.

Dang though, if the leg had actually been 4.31, I was flying! :)

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